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Explore a variety of packaging industry thought leadership pieces from our internal subject matter experts, read compelling case studies, hear from our service techs about helpful maintenance tips and tricks and more here in the nVenia Blog. Do you have a question you would like answered? Or a subject matter in the packaging industry you would like to learn more about?  Let us know!

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nVenia’s HAMER Brand Leads North American Salt Bagging Industry

04/07/2011
For more than 15 years, nVenia’s HAMER Brand has offered complete turn-key salt bagging systems for a wide variety of applications.   From safety salt to water conditioning salt and ice melter products, no one has more experience in the demands of this corrosive and abrasive product.   Our team understands the unique requirements of this...
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Deliver Automated Ice Bagging at 50 to 60 Bags Per Minute

03/27/2011
nVenia’s HAMER Brand has added several speed-up kits for all our automated Ice Bagging machines.   These kits can be added at the time of purchase to a new machine, or easily added to customers’ existing machines.   Adding a speed up kit will allow an ice producer to increase ice bagging throughput up to 60 bags per...
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Product Spotlight: Model 600NW Servo Gravity Bagging Scale

03/27/2011
A long-time nVenia bagging equipment customer recently added our new Model 2090 Form, Fill & Seal  automated bagging machine to one of their many bagging lines.   The Model 2090 features a wide variety of core design improvements over previous HAMER Brand Form, Fill & Seal bagging machines.   Included in these improvements are an...
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Mulch Producers Experience 25% Bagging Productivity Gain

03/13/2011
During the first quarter of 2011, the team from nVenia’s HAMER Brand started-up several new mulch bagging lines, and the results have been impressive.   All of these new systems have seen gains of 6, 8 or more bags per minute over their previous production capabilities. The average gain in productivity for all...
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Caspian Sulphur Selects nVenia’s HAMER Brand as Best World Supplier of Bagging Scales

02/12/2011
Caspian Sulphur Company LLP, located in the Republic of Kazakhstan, selected nVenia’s HAMER Brand as its supplier after an extensive world search for the most reliable, durable and accurate bagging scale.  They bag a unique flaked sulfur that is shipped across Russia for use in a variety of applications including...
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Large Format Printers Aid Automated Fertilizer Bagging

02/11/2011
With the launch of ITW Norwood’s NGT 8E  large format thermal transfer label printer, fertilizer packagers can now print up to 6″ x 8″ ingredient formulations in real time when connected to nVenia HAMER Brand bagging equipment.  This means no more printing of labels to apply to hand bagged products or use of expensive...
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nVenia’s HAMER Brand Automates Asphalt Bagging Operations

12/21/2010
Looking to improve productivity and reduce labor, a new nVenia customer approached us with a desire to automate their asphalt packaging plant.   Our HAMER Brand supplied a Model 2090 form, fill & seal bagging machine and a Model 600NW belt feed net weigh scale for product dosing.   The Model 600NW belt feed scale has a unique, easy-to-clean...
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Fertilizer Company Improves Bottom Line with Bagging Automation

12/20/2010
Growmark fertilizer recently completed installation of a fully automatic bagging, palletizing and wrapping system with nVenia’s HAMER Brand.   Initially looking at bag placing technology, Growmark discovered that using form, fill & seal automated bagging with our exclusive 6 x 8 thermal transfer printer option allowed them to significantly reduce bag cost, reduce bag SKUs from...
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Old Castle Upgrades Bagging Plant

10/07/2010
Old Castle’s Amherst Wisconsin plant recently upgraded their bagging operations with the all new nVenia HAMER Brand Model 2090 form, fill & seal system.   The new system consists of HAMER in-feeds, a 300VF volumetric filler, the all-new Model 2090 form, fill & seal, an automated palletizer and a Wulftec stretch wrapper.   Systems...
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High Speed Mulch/Soil Bagging Systems Running at 26-30 BPM

08/13/2010
Say goodbye to slow mulch bagging speeds! The speeds delivered for mulch and soil bagging systems from nVenia’s HAMER Brand have real world run rates of 26-30 BPM. When running 2 cu ft bags of mulch, customers are achieving real plant rates of 26-28 bags per minute and 30 bags...
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nVenia HAMER Brand 300VF Reduces Downtime From Older Bagger/Filler Designs

08/12/2010
Using innovative leveling wheel technology and VFD motors, the nVenia HAMER Brand Model 300VF has effectively eliminated traditional down time issues with old leveling chain style filler/baggers used in the Lawn and Garden industry. Leveling chains have lots of wear parts – sprockets, chains, level flights – that typically require...
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